Viewers beware. Basically it’s whoever can bully enough to spread whatever propaganda with enough money and power.
Tag: social media
The supplement boom is based in shoddy science, or no real science at all.
Because so often the online marketing of supplements and various wellness products involves linking to a study that doesn’t back up their claims at all, but nobody ever clicks through so they get away with fraudulent appeal to authority.
2 things can be true at once, kids and phones discourse edition.
Two things or multiple things can be true at once. Social media is toxic, and kids should have access to phone service.
Labor precarity and the weaponization of communication.
People just don’t trust unknown funding, nor hiding stuff. And people don’t like to find out that someone they thought was speaking truth to power is actually towing a prescribed party line.
Youtube allows ads that make a really great argument for the government to crack down on this stuff.
These bonkers eyeglasses commercials aren’t even the worst commercials I’ve seen on Youtube, but a lot of these ads are great arguments for government regulation that’s unfortunately not happening. Ever since I was getting new glasses recently, which involved a multiple trips to eye care over a couple of months in order to get it […]
Funded advertising for the idea of state sponsored ethnic cleansing in America is not a good sign.
And I really don’t want my tax dollars paying for that bullshit, do you?
Humans can’t live without water, but AI data centers are being prioritized over people.
These residents in Georgia next to a Meta (Facebook) data center have had their tap waters run dry.
Just stop trying to organize via facebook groups.
If you use Facebook to find people, I get it, but at least have a separate email list and some way people can find your group outside of Facebook.
Monstrosity data center power plant polluting Memphis to power a nerd reich chatbot.
No, I don’t want this in Pennsylvania, I don’t want it in Memphis and I’ve never even been to Memphis, but the situation sounds terrible.
It’s good if the Jeffrey Epstein files debacle leads to more people learning about inauthentic persuasion on social media.
The split in MAGA over the Jeffrey Epstein Files issue has led to chatbot programmed troll farm accounts in a social media botnet to start putting out confusing and conflicting posts.
Right-wing propaganda artist is being promoted as resistance liberal hero on social media.
People are rallying for the artist saying that the Trump admin should pay the artist for his work; but that would just mean taxpayer money would be paying for racist paintings. How is that a win?
How do liberal pundits and Dem political operatives who advance right-wing framing stay in business?
How do audiences swallow this in a time of authoritarian outrages? Somebody must be paying them to keep it up because how much demand in the “free market” is there for right-wing content for the left? I know I’m not just paranoid, because it would not be the first or even the most stupid of […]
Isn’t posing as a therapist against the law already?
If it’s not, it should be illegal for a company to deploy chatbots that pretend to be licensed therapists.
People’s personal facebook chatbot chats are being published publicly.
What could possibly go wrong? Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed Pivot to AI Jun 14, 2025 My letter to reps: META and other platforms running chatbots should have to at least inform people that their chatbot chat messages are being put in a public feed complete with stuff that’s probably […]
Almost all the AI boosters seem at least a tad delusional to me.
So how do the techno rapture believing moderators of the pro-AI subreddit tell a difference?
Chatbots are addictive like social media, gambling, and video games, but I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
I noticed the addictive aspect of the chatbot 2 years ago, and warned that I suspected it wasn’t a coincidence it seemed to have aspects that reminded me of the game Diablo.
I was on The Letterhack Presents with Matt Strackbein to talk about why FAFO doesn’t matter because there’s no Invisible Hand of the Market. .
DOES FAFO EVEN MATTER? – #MAGA REFUSES TO #LEARN W/ CHLOE HUMBERT! – The Letterhack Among other aspects, we talked about how people didn’t learn from the pandemic, and once you F around and find out unvaccinated, it’s too late for the kids who died to “learn” anything from such an experience.
Shadowbanning is happening and communities are definitely messed with on social media.
This is not just about shitposting. Do not rely on one platform for communicating with people who you would like to stay in touch with. Will Sam Altman and His AI Kill Us All? The Bulwark May 23, 2025 Karen Hao: “she consistently felt like she was being shadowbanned and when I talked with um researchers […]
AI is shoddy, and it’s used as a shadowbanning assist.
I decided to read this book “Empire of AI” after an interview with the author Karen Hao on the Better Offline podcast, which covers the technical and financial no there there of AI. And in this interview by Tim Miller at the Bulwark with Karen Hao, they talk about environmental impacts, but I think this […]
Signs it’s a scam.
“Don’t respond to unexpected calls, emails, texts, or social media messages that ask for money or personal information.”
Feeding the trolls maybe gets you clicks, but rewarding stalkers with attention is dangerous.
Just don’t do it, it’s not worth it.